Bridgeport CT Commuters Gained an Extra Week of Vacation in Traffic

This week, we released the seventh annual INRIX Traffic Scorecard. Utilizing trillions of traffic data points gathered from crowd-sourced traffic information, the Scorecard is the world’s most in-depth, data-driven look at traffic congestion statistics and data in metropolitan cities in the United States.

Commuters in Bridgeport, CT took an extra week of vacation last year, only they spent it sitting in behind the wheel in traffic along I-95. This equates to 42 hours sitting in a car sipping a mocha and listening to talk radio.

Additionally, commuters in Bridgeport experienced a 19 percent increase in overall travel time due to bad traffic. So what used to be a 45 minute commute to work in the morning along the I-95 is now closer to an hour.

If you’re a data geek or just want to know what you can expect from traffic in your city, head on over to the Traffic Scorecard to see where your city ranks. Be sure to check out the top 25 U.S. cities with the worst traffic below.